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Appropriation of Aboriginal Oral Traditions
The Baffin Writer's Project
Looks at a project that encourages Inuit people to begin writing their stories and, in this way, pass on Inuit culture and language to the next generation.
"The Belly of This Story": Storytelling and Symbolic Birth
in Native American Fiction
Contemporary Reinvention of Chief Seattle: Variant Texts of Chief Seattle's 1854 Speech
Cultures in Conflict: The Problem of Discourse
Discussion on the problem of discourse in the Dunne-za/Cree trial, which pitted written documents against knowledge gained from the oral tradition of First Nations peoples.
First Death in the Fourth World: Teaching the Emergence Myth of the Hopi Indians
Forum [Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 7, No.2, Summer 1995]
From Creation Stories to '49 Songs: Cultural Transactions with the White World as Portrayed in Northern Plains Indian Story and Song
From Myth to Metafiction: A Narratological Analysis of Thomas King's "The One About Coyote Going West"
Mourning Dove's Canadian Recovery Years, 1917-1919
Discusses the period in Christine Quintasket's life when her health improved and she regained the strength to pursue her ambitions as a writer.
Mourning Dove's The House of Little Men
Discusses Mourning Dove's legend story,The House of Little Men, which contains elements of assimilation and illustrates the writer's storytelling skills.
Mythic Rage and Laughter: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor
Noah Meets Old Coyote, or Singing in the Rain: Intertextuality in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
One Generation from Extinction
Discussion on the death of tribal languages.
The Oral in the Written: A Literature Between Two Cultures
Prickly Pears
Primitivism in Missinippi Cree Historical Consciousness
The Prophecy
Looks at a fictional visionary's dream about the horrors that await the First Nations of the Americas.